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Where's Spot?
Where's Spot? by Eric Hill is one of the early books that was read aloud in class. Since I was only in kindergarten I thought this was visually intriguing and got the whole class engaged by the way my teacher read it to us. -
If you Give a Mouse a Cookie
If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff is such a fun book. I remember this book so vividly, and the other If you Give... books. I enjoyed it so much because it was silly but having the teacher read aloud to the class made it memorable...simply because everyone enjoyed it and the teacher passionately reading it to us with different tones etc... -
Madeline
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans is one I really enjoyed too. I liked the size of the book, it felt right. I also like the visual aspect of it. I think I mostly liked that story when I was younger because I wanted to be Madeline and do all the courageous things she did for being such a young girl living in France. It seemed realistic and cool! Plus it had a TV show with it so I can see if what I imagined was similar. -
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein are a classic and one of my favorites today. Reading the poems in the book was fun for me because they were different from the typical books and the imagery in them added a different flare. -
The Giving Tree
The Giving Tree is also another Shel Siverstein book that I liked. It had nice imagery along with the words. In particular, when you start to understand the meaning of the book, it makes it even better. -
The Cat in the Hat
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss is a classic! It is so different but makes reading fun because it is so imaginative. The Dr.Seuss books are probably one of the first books my parents bought me and I owned in my book collection. -
A Light in the Attic
Another one of Shel Silverstein books I read was A Light in the Attic. This booked seemed like it had longer poems in it. The cool thing about reading his books is that, by the end of it, you've accomplished reading so many pages! -
Arthur's Chicken Pox
Arthur's Chicken Pox by Marc Brown is another one that I enjoyed... any of the Arthur books really. They seem so relateable and incorporate friends, family, school and the community. The books were not too hard and challenging enough. -
Matilda
Matila by Roald Dahl is another book that stands out. I liked it a lot because it had a strong, smart but mischivious young girl as the main character. I felt like I could sort of connect with her (minus the magical powers). I got more into reading in this time of my life and even became a reading tutor at my elementary school to struggling readers. -
Charlotte's Web
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White is another classic. Everyone knows and has read this book. It tells the story about the full circle of life through animals and shows a sense of family which is really important to me. -
Harry Potter Series - Really ENJOYED reading now!
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling is one of my favorite books. I read the books a couple of years after the first one published. My cousin had read it and told me that she thought I would enjoy it. I started to read it and I couldn't put the books down. This is probably the turning point of reading for me because I started to really enjoy it. My favorite books out of the series is Goblet of Fire and Deathly Hallows. -
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of my favorite books. There was something about this that intrigued me and I always remembered. It gave some history in the booming era and I can imagine this life of luxury in my head. It was something that seemed relateable because sometimes what seems as one thing, really is another. -
Brave New World
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is one I really enjoyed. It had this futuristic new world and it was such a different society from what I know which made it intriguing. One of the books I still remember a lot about. -
Wasted
Wasted by Marya Hornbacher is a memoir of a girl who struggled with an eating disorder majority of her life. My psychology teacher suggested the book and I immediately went out and bought it. It was an eye opening experience into the world of someone who was struggling. It just made me want to help people even more... especially with so many people who are self-conscious about themselves and starting at such a young age now. -
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games series was a fun series to read. When I find a good book that has a movie tied to it, it is always fun to compare the two different medias. I love books where you can really imagine the scenes and descriptions in your head as you are reading. The emotions and characters in the book seem real for being in a totally different era. Reading popular young adult books, I think will come in hand when trying to connect and identify with students. -
Steve Jobs
I am currently reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. This has got me really intrigued on biographies. Everyone is unique and different, and it is interesting to read about their lives and how similar or different is it to mine. I was more interested to read this book because I work for Apple. -
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was another book I really enjoyed while most of my classmates didn't. I think I enjoyed it because I felt pity for her and that there was no justice even though the times back then were different for women. I think this year in my life, I was assigned a lot of reading, but I actually enjoyed most of them which made me realize that there is a lot more to books than reading.
